It takes a screwed up parent to raise a brilliant child
It takes an adult who acts a child to bring up a child who is mature
It takes evil to find good
It takes wrong to find right
It takes deception to find truth
It takes time to find patience
It takes stupidity to find brilliance
I am stronger for it all
Never to be forsaken
I carve my path in deep
I shall not be shaken
I go to make decisions
They shall be my own
And he shall never see
All the right choices I make.
+Sargirl+

Nol, I know what you mean, but i was noticing a pattern of silly parents and mature children in my school.
Me included!
lgreen, every one makes mistakes, but if love is there it's all godd!
Thanks to you both!
Sargirl

I don't really want to say this, but I feel that I should.
The poem is too pedatic with the beginings of the lines being nearly all the same.

How about something like this instead?

It takes an eccentric parent to raise a brilliant child,
a perpetual Peter Pan to bring up a child who is mature;
Only with evil, will a child understand what is righteous,
and without deception, there would be no truth.
In order to know patience, one must suspend time,
and only the foolish, stumble upon true genius;
I am stronger for it all, never to be forsaken
I carve my path deep, and I shall not be shaken
When I make decisions, they shall be my own
And he shall never know what choices I have made.

That's a good, fleshed out version, Bruce, but it strikes me as a bit more verbose towards the beginning than Sargirl is. You are really quite verbose Is there another word for that? It's getting repetitive...wordy. There we go.

Actually Megan, my version should be LESS verbose, because I actually chopped some lines that I felt had already been covered. So thar! Thhhhhhhhhhhpt.

And if it looks MORE verbose, maybe that is because I made the poem wider. Sheesh, ya just can't win with this gal. She bitches that you only use 3 mords in a line, and then when you make lines longer she calls you verbose. The nerve of this wench! So sassy! :-D

Thanks squire!
Yes Bruce, the last couple of days have really stunk. I don't really want to get into it right now because I feel like I am at a transition point, so at least my perspective may shift.
Nothing serious, just the usuall junk.
Thanks for worrying!
Sargirl